Chapter 151: Entering the Palace for the First Time
Winter has completely passed, the roadside plane treetops have grown new green, and the weeping willows by the river have also raised flocular, so that the aristocratic district of the royal capital has seven or eight points of spring, and the opposite bank is still gray-gray-brown and brown in sharp contrast.
The day has finally come for the king to canonize the Magic Tower. Since the beating king was injured by life energy during that disgraceful event in the New Year, his health seems to have deteriorated a lot. It has been several days since that day that he has not been seen. The days when the school people were canonized on the land also dragged on more and more, and the land that should have been obtained after the spring break was delayed until nearly two months later.
However, in the last few days, the king's health seems to have improved again, and he has been on official business for three or four days in a row. The date for the canonization of the Black Mountain mage was also set three days ago.
Three carriages drove through the streets of the aristocratic quarter in the bright sunshine towards the royal palace.
Although the canonization of a new magic tower is an important thing for both the wizarding world and the kingdom. But for the commoners of this era, even the petty nobles and small merchants, they neither knew nor cared about such a thing. Everything in the city runs the same way it used to be.
"I thought there would be at least some bunting or something. There are only a few magic towers in the kingdom, and it should be a big event to have one more of us today. Xiao Chen said.
"Do you want a row of knights to open the way in front of the carriage?" Luo Ling asked rhetorically.
"Why didn't you think earlier that we could force the king to put on a big show that day in the underground of the market. Xiao Chen quipped.
A gust of wind blew, and the catkins flew into the car window, Xiao Chen glanced at the catkins, and they were still outside the window, shaking in the breeze but unable to take a step in.
"Yesterday, I heard from the north about Celia the Glacier Walker. It is said that she has been cultivating behind closed doors for the past year, and no one has seen her up and down the empire. Looks like there's not much hope over there. But even if she were, she wouldn't necessarily be interested in what we had in our hands. Luo Ling said.
"Even if she's not interested in knowledge, at worst we still have holy texts, such as the Gathering Spirit Register, which won't be worth less than the Heart of Ice. β
"Didn't you notice that many of the Great Magicians who knew about it avoided the Holy Scriptures? These things look amazing, but to put it bluntly, they are hot potatoes, and once they are discovered by the nature temple, no one can explain them. Luo Ling looked out the window at the palace that was getting closer and closer, "These people are fine, and they are far away to ask us to stand in front." β
"No, we don't have a chance. Xiao Chen smiled, "Otherwise, how can they support us to cut down a piece of land with an invisible magic tower?"
A moment later, the carriage, led by a knight, drove into the area where the palace was located, and after passing a gate, followed by a long ramp up the hill to the commanding castle of the palace.
The palace is particularly majestic when viewed up close, like a giant standing in the mountains, looking down on the whole city.
The people of the office got out of the car at the gate of the castle, and then followed a few attendants into one of the three holy places of the royal capital.
The outside of the castle is made of yellow boulders, the outer walls are seven or eight stories high, and are composed of towers, walls and podiums, with a ring of battlements above, and towers at several corners, which are painted with runes, whether they are used for attack or defense. The wall extends to the bottom and is directly connected to the rock behind the castle, and there is a podium with a long bridge with four arches that connects to the Royal Magic Tower not far away.
The main entrance of the palace was four or five meters wide and eight or nine meters high. Around stood a dozen tall warriors. Xiao Chen followed the attendant into the doorway, and his spiritual power felt a sense of depression, and he whispered: "There is indeed a magic circle here that suppresses spiritual power. β
"Well, I also feel it, the spiritual power is like being stuck in water, and the distance of action is much shorter. Luo Ling said.
"My spiritual magic is estimated to only work at a distance of two or three meters here. Xiao Chen said, "I heard that only by wearing special magic props can this inhibition be eliminated." β
The faΓ§ade of the castle is tough and rough, but the interior is much more elaborate. Xiao Chen and the others walked into the foyer and found that the floor was paved with red and white marble, the walls were painted with powder, which was clean white, and there were murals and statues decorated at intervals.
The King's Council Chamber, located on the second floor of the main building of the castle, led through a vestibule garden and up the stairs from one side cloister, leading directly to the door of the Chamber.
The guard pushed open the door to the chamber, and inside was a hall larger than three basketball courts combined, and the light shone in through a row of narrow panes and fell on the smooth floor, making the room very bright.
There were a lot of people standing in small piles talking and letting the noise come out.
"Your Excellency Xiao Chen, Your Excellency Luo Ling, Your Excellency Li Jia, Your Excellency Liu Pengfei, Your Excellency Xiao Dui, and other Venerable Mages from the Tower of China have arrived. "The officer on duty in the council hall has already checked the list and reported the names of the high-ranking and mid-level mages.
Xiao Chen, Luo Ling was already equipped with the March Badge of a high-level mage at this time. The two of them had many adventures and vicious battles before, and sure enough, as Master Kona said, they quickly succeeded in breaking through the high level, and this time the two did not encounter the bottleneck of the so-called cultivation, which can be said to be a matter of course.
Xiao Chen now gradually understood that the essence of cultivation was learning and exercising. The accumulation is enough, the strength has arrived, and it is natural to go to the next level. It's like an exam, the scumbag is naturally afraid of danger and trembling, but the student can step over it with an understatement.
And Li Jia, Liu Pengfei and Xiao Du are equipped with the double moon badge. Liu Pengfei had frequent contacts with Princess Laura for more than a month after the assessment, and he also had special encounters, and he successfully advanced to the intermediate level before he was canonized. And after Ye Zi and the three of them, two more people in the office also successfully condensed and became low-level mages. Two high-level, three middle-level and five beginner-level, even in the royal capital, can hold up a lot of scenes.
And the Tower of China is the final result of Xiao Chen's naming of the school. Anyway, there is a China Pavilion at the World Expo, and it is not strange that it is called China Tower here, and it can be homesick to oneself, but it is very mysterious to outsiders.
When Xiao Chen and the others walked into the hall, the people who heard the name turned their heads and looked at today's protagonist.
There were already nearly 100 guests in the hall. Half of them are the great nobles and administrators of the kingdom, a small half are magicians of the Royal Magic Tower and the Kingdom Magic Association, some are priests of the Temple of Nature, and the rest are envoys of other countries.
Xiao Chen glanced at it, and many people he was familiar with were already here.